Background Emergency tracheal intubation during major trauma resuscitation may be associated with unrecognised endobronchial intubation. The risk factors and outcomes associated with this issue have ...

Correspondence to Dr Helen Riess, Empathy and Relational Science Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; HRiess{at}Partners.Org While many believe some people are ...

One of the hallmarks of an emergency department (ED), compared with an urgent care, or a physician’s office, is that patients are seen by the clinicians in order of acuity, not arrival. When there are ...

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Background Medical imaging use has increased progressively, prompting discussions about its clinical impact. Interventions to reduce low-value imaging have had varying success, as they generally do ...

We have read with great interest the recently published study titled ‘Comparison of the Effects of Vapocoolant Spray and Topical Anaesthetic Cream (Lidocaine–Prilocaine) on Pain of Intravenous ...

Introduction There is a lack of indicators to guide quality improvement activities in virtual emergency medicine internationally. We developed quality indicators for use across a collaboration of four ...

A most unusual submission for ‘The View from Here’ is a poem by Louie1 from Minnesota. Louie has chosen an original but powerful conduit in poetry to express his dread, anguish and frustration at the ...

Prevalence and epidemiology. FND is common, as highlighted by a cross-sectional study of 3781 newly referred neurology patients in Scotland, UK, which found that 15%–20% of the neurology referrals ...

Background Older patients’ attendances at EDs are rising. There are concerns that these individuals have prolonged stays, which have been shown to be associated with adverse clinical outcomes. We ...

Objectives Diverting patients away from the emergency department (ED) has been proposed as a solution for mitigating overcrowding. This systematic review examined the impact of interventions designed ...

The D-dimer is a stable termination product of fibrin degradation. It was introduced as a biomarker of coagulation activation in the early 1970s and first evaluated as a test to exclude venous ...